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Poster:	august_wst	Date:	May 24, 2012 11:29:52am
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: 5/8/77

Don't know what to say, there are points in that recording that the slides he does sound flawlessly fretless. That was the word at the time too.

Having not been there myself I can't say for sure. Just reporting my historical perspective

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Poster:	N Hoey	Date:	May 24, 2012 11:38:18am
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: 5/8/77

No big deal, but in the late 70's Phil performed switching between his Rick Turner/Alembic Osage-Orange bass (a la The GD Movie) and Big Brown (sometimes known as The Godfather), the "alembicized" Guild Starfire bass. Both 4 string, both fretted.

I saw him do the finger slides on songs like "Fire on the Mountain" and "Lazy Lightning" on those fretted basses all the time. Anyone reporting that they saw a fretless were um, not seeing clearly for whatever reason.

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Poster:	Headphone	Date:	May 25, 2012 10:57:10am
Forum:	GratefulDead	Subject:	Re: 5/8/77

Delighted to see the term "alembicized" mentioned here! Every day in the 70s we would use that word to describe modifications to all manner of musical instruments, household objects, even bicycles!